If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

"Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise," Mayweather wrote on his Twitter account on Monday afternoon.

LOL Floyd Mayweather shouldn't be allowed to open his mouth... Lin would KO this fool with one punch.

Floyds one of my top 5 favorite boxers of all time but race is only half of it, like runningjumper alluded too.

I dont really think theres anything wrong with Lin getting attention because of his race, he is the first Asian American basketball player to play in the NBA. Yao Ming got alotta attention too but its a little different, Yao's Chinese and he was born in China. Plus he had higher expectations from day one

When it comes to putting up numbers that Lin has put up in the last five games, yes, there are non Asian players in the NBA that do that every night.But no players in the NBA besides Lin have gone from being a D-Leaguer one week to being one of the most dominating players in the NBA the next week.Mayweather is a hater and has an IQ that makes Mike Tyson's look like Einstein's.

Pretty Boy needs to get his ass back in the ring, and keep his controversies to boxing where he knows wtf he's talking about.

Idk if he's just ignorant and bored, or legit has some emo beef about non-black NBA players and is feeling butthurt because the only media attention he's been getting is about prison, ****ty opponents, and not geting it done in negotiating with Pacman.

It's true that some of the publicity Lin gets is because he is Asian; though Lin himself hasn't been milking that **** just to get media attention.

PBF, ironically, is milking The Rise Of Lin from a race perspective to get a little shine from the talking heads.

PBF isn't a ignorant dumbass, so I'm sure he knows that an Ivey Leaguer who suddenly comes from D-League to balling on Kobe as star PG of the New York Knicks in under a month has zero to do w/ race.

Floyds one of my top 5 favorite boxers of all time but race is only half of it, like runningjumper alluded too.

I dont really think theres anything wrong with Lin getting attention because of his race, he is the first Asian American basketball player to play in the NBA. Yao Ming got alotta attention too but its a little different, Yao's Chinese and he was born in China. Plus he had higher expectations from day one

Exactly. Nobody beefs when Tiger got some extra pub in his early days by being a black golfer on the rise; same for the Williams sisters in tennis, or even top prospects like Donald Young.

They had their haters and racist bull**** thrown their way, but you take it on the chin like a man and keep balling. Not like Lin doesn't get racist **** thrown his way all the time, dating back to his college days.

When a Hasidic Jew spits out raps and hip hop and gets a soundtrack on iTunes, he gets some extra attention bc of his race/religion, too.

1) nobody has ever done what lin has done, which is even more impressive considering his overuse and how bad the offense was
2) black basketball players basically get all the attention when lin isn't setting records
3) where was he when lin was counted out because he's Asian?
4) I seem to remember a black baseball player that would have been just another great if he were white or hispanic

If you ask me the biggest story about Lin isn't his race or his stats but the affect he has had on our team's mental approach to games. He was a no one and he turned guys like Jeffries, Walker, and Novak into players who refuse to loose.

If you ask me the biggest story about Lin isn't his race or his stats but the affect he has had on our team's mental approach to games. He was a no one and he turned guys like Jeffries, Walker, and Novak into players who refuse to loose.

pink floyd mayweather has no clue, he's a talented dude, but an a-hole.
sure, folks are having fun with Lin's heritage and race and the relative ease
of making Lin-tastic puns, but being Asian has NOTHING to do with what he's
done, and the headlines he's created. he went from nothing to superstar in
1 week, turned the biggest team in basketball around by himself, and is the
essence of good guy does great, poor man gets rich, unknown gets famous,
in 1 WEEK's TIME!! A PHENOMENON! from the couch to the clouds!

Meanwhile, Mayweather refused to fight Manny Packawow unless the guy had
3 blood tests before the fight, in essence weakening his opponent before he'll
even sign the contract. he's a cheater, a loudmouth creep who called out the
great 80 year old Larry Merchant after his last fight, and hasn't lived up to his
reputation of greatest pound for pound fighter because he's scared to fight Manny.